Analyze This! Practice Fusion on Kaggle Prospect

Practice Fusion is the country’s fastest growing Electronic Health Record (EHR) community, with more than 170,000 medical professional users treating 34 million patients in all 50 states. Practice Fusion’s EHR-driven research dataset is used to detect disease outbreaks, identify dangerous drug interactions and compare the effectiveness of competing treatments.

In partnership with Kaggle, Practice Fusion is releasing 10,000 de-identified, HIPAA-compliant medical records to spur innovation into new uses of clinical data to improve public health and patient care. This dataset is one of the largest and richest sources of medical record data ever released and includes information on diagnoses, lab results, medications, allergies, immunizations, vital signs, and health behavior.

Practice Fusion’s past data challenges have spawned a range of creative visualizations, applications, analyses, and even a few start-ups. In this year’s Analyze This!, Practice Fusion and Kaggle call on an ever-growing community of developers, designers, and data scientists interested in solving our nation’s most stubborn healthcare problems by tackling our two data challenges: the Prediction Challenge and the Open Challenge.

Prediction Challenge

The first phase of the Prediction Challenge is Kaggle Prospect in which you submit ideas for the best prediction problem! The Kaggle community is invited to vote on the most interesting and promising ideas. A panel of judges will select a winner from the top-voted 10 ideas for the second phase, a predictive modeling competition based on the winning idea.

Kaggle Prospect submissions and voting will be available from the launch of Analyze This! to June 30. The predictive modeling phase of the Prediction Challenge will start no later than July 9, and end on Monday, September 10.

Open Challenge

Get the dataset and show us what you can find!

Analyze the clinical dataset provided here or combine it with one or more datasets from www.data.gov. Use the mash-up however you like: map chronic disease across the country, create a personal health app, or a tool for running clinical trials. Share your results and analyses online!

Submissions for the Open Challenge will be accepted from the launch of Analyze This! to Monday, September 10.